antiMusic reports: Silverchair has returned
with a new studio album, "Young Modern." An album that helped them set
a record for the most No. 1 albums by any band in their native Australia.
(This one makes it their fifth, beating the old record they shared with
Midnight Oil).

The band is in the midst of a sold out
tour Down Under (they'll be back Stateside in Nov) and we asked frontman
Daniel Johns to pick some of his favorite tracks from the new album and
tell us a little bit about them. Here he is with today's song "Waiting
All Day ".

I wanted to write a track like Roy Orbison
or something like that. A classic, old, timeless song with no tricks -
a classic structure. I wrote the music with Julian Hamilton from The Presets.
I really love what he does as a songwriter. We worked on the song together.-
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tracks from the CD, get tour dates and more her

antiMusic reports: Outlaws founder and one
time Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Hughie Thomasson passed away Sunday night
at his home in Brooksville, Fla. "He went out to dinner with his wife Mary
on Sunday (Sept. 9), went home, got comfortable in his favorite chair to
watch football and then passed away from a heart attack during a nap,"
according to CMT.

Lynyrd Skynyrd issued a statement on their
website "With our deepest sympathy we have lost another one of our brothers
to the rock and roll heaven. We had many a good time writing and playing
with Hughie and spent many miles on the road together. God bless his family
and all the fans that love Hughie for his playing and singing. Out hearts
and prayers go out to his family. He will be truly missed. Fly on Free
Bird."

Thomasson was a founder of the legendary
southern rock band The Outlaws and stayed with the band through several
lineup changes, breakups and reformations. During their career they produced
13 albums and amassed a loyal following. Following one of their breakups,
Thomasson joined Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1996 and stay with them up until the
2005 reunion of the Outlaws.- more
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antiMusic reports: Today is the day. Led Zeppelin
are expected to announce a one-off reunion show during a London press conference
at 4pm BST. While there is a very little information about said conference
except hearsay, many in the UK press believe that it is being called to
confirm that the legendary group will in fact reform for a concert in late
November at the new 02 Arena.

NME.COM reports that that "the show will
be held at O2, possibly on November 26, and is a charity gig being organized
by legendary promoter Harvey Goldsmith." The band split when drummer John
Bonham passed away and according to Dot Music it has been John Paul Jones
that has held back on reformations under the Led Zeppelin name in the past.

They report: "Bass player John Paul Jones
retained a twenty five percent ownership of the name and up until now has
refused to let the band reform. The other quarter is owned by drummer John
Bonham's son, Jason and all four will make up the band."-
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antiMusic reports: Say what you will about
rapper Trick Daddy, but he does live his lyrics. He was arrested at a Miami
strip club on Tuesday morning and charged with disorderly intoxication
and resisting arrest following a fight at the club.

Maybe he was just "f**kin' around" like
in his famed song where he raps "slap that bitch on the third / ---- done
caught wit a slurr / Cant see sh*t but a blurr" but police were called
out to Tootsie's Cabaret shortly after 1 a.m. Tuesday. When police arrived
they report that the rapper, real name Maurice Young, smelled of alcohol
and they found him cursing and "threatening staff at the club," according
to the police report.

Police asked the rapper to leave the building,
he refused and according tot he police report when the police asked him
"to put his hands behind his back, he refused and started moving his arms
around not to be handcuffed", thus the resisting arrest charge.-
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Gigwise reports: The rivalry of two of pop
music's greatest ever songwriters is likely to end this week as Sir Paul
McCartney looks certain to join Brian Wilson for a duet at The Royal Festival
Hall following Wilson's performance of a Beatles classic last night.

Wilson debuted new song cycle 'That Lucky
Old Sun' and ended the set with a cover of The Beatles classic 'Sgt. Peppers
Lonely Hearts Club Band'.

It has also been confirmed by festival
insiders that Sir Paul has been approached to play on Thursday night (September
13).- more
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PR reports: Disappointing news today as Kaiser
Chiefs cancel their upcoming US tour, citing the need to focus on new material.
The band will still perform shows in Austin and New York, but the rest
of the dates are now cancelled. Kaisers drummer Nick Hodgson issued the
following statement:

"We'd like to apologize to fans in America
and Canada, especially those who have already bought tickets, but something
had to give. We've been extremely busy all year and had no time to focus
on the future, we plan to have new material out as soon as possible and
we've wanted to record all summer.

"This needs to happen before our European
& UK shows at the end of the year so we can play a few of our new songs
live, we're keen to explore new ground, beyond the sound of our first two
records, so we're headed back into the studio to begin that process."-
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MSO reports: Following a successful run of
high profile shows in the U.S.--as a main stage headlining act on this
year's Vans Warped Tour--as well as overseas, Underoath have extended their
fall headlining run through November.

The trek will take the band through 37
cities, kicking off September 22 in Houston. High profile stops include
The Wiltern in Los Angeles on Friday, October 5 and the Nokia Theatre-Times
Square in New York City on Wednesday, October 24. The fall trek will be
filmed for a live concert and documentary DVD, release date is tbd.-
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PR reports: New Orleans natives, DOWN, will
head out on the road for their OVER THE UNDER world tour which begins in
the U.S. on 9/27 in Reno, NV. The band will spend the rest of 2007 headlining
dates in North America with an international run to begin in 2008 in support
of their forthcoming record.

DOWN is set to release DOWN III-OVER THE
UNDER on Sept. 25th through ILG/Warner Music Group. After releasing two
records mainly as a side project, the band got together in the months before
Hurricane Katrina to start working on new material. The band reconnected
in New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina with a newfound purpose and
focus on DOWN, and began work on their most ambitious record to date. -
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antiMusic reports: Neil Young is heading out
on the road next month in support of his new album "Chrome Dreams II".
The tour kicks off on October 18th in Boise, two days after the album hits
stores and will run through mid December with a two night stand in New
York.

Fans that purchase tickets to any of the
shows will also receive a copy of the album, according to Filter. We're
not sure if that includes the two night Bridge School Benefit which takes
place on October 27th and 28th.

The benefit shows will also include performances
by Metallica, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eddie Vedder with Flea & Jack Irons,
Tom Waits and Kronos Quartet, John Mayer, Tegan & Sara and Regina Spektor.-
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PR reports: Rhino Entertainment will release
Emmylou Harris' Songbird: Rare Tracks And Forgotten Gems 4CD/1 DVD boxed
set on September 18, 2007. 12-time Grammy Award-winner Emmylou Harris retraces
the back roads of her remarkable musical journey that spans more than three
decades with a highly personalized, far-reaching boxed set spotlighting
her favorite tracks and difficult-to-find or previously unreleased gems.

Rhino lets one of the most instantly recognizable
voices of any genre call the tunes for this four-CD and one-DVD collection
of career favorites, difficult-to-find material and live performances from
her days with Gram Parsons and, later, the Hot Band to her bluegrass material
and her fascinating concept album to her more recent solo albums and her
most recent work Mark Knopfler. Songbird: Rare Tracks And Forgotten Gems
will be available at all physical retail outlets and at www.rhino.com-
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tracklist

antiMusic reports: After a three year wait
for a new studio album, The Dillinger Escape Plan will return to North
American record stores on November 13th with their new one called Ire Works.
(out on the 12th in the rest of the world) The 11 track effort will be
released by Relapse records and is the follow up to their critically acclaimed
2004 album Miss Machine.

According to a press release, they recorded
Ire Works with long-time engineer Steve Evetts at Evetts-- Omen Room Studios
in Los Angeles , CA . The band has unveiled the first preview track and
album opener Fix Your Face exclusively via the bands MySpace.

When you have a new CD you have a new tour.
The press release continues: The Dillinger Escape Plan has also unveiled
the details for their first headlining tours in support of Ire Works.-
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info including tracklist and tour dates

antiMusic reports: Meshuggah confirmed what
fans had already known, they have cancelled their European tour with the
Dillinger Escape Plan which was set to take place in November. The reason
they give is that they need to spend a little extra time in the studio
to complete their new album.

Here is the message they posted on their
website: We regrettably have to inform you that we have been forced to
pull out of the November Euro tour with The Dillinger Escape Plan. There
are several reasons for this. The main one being the fact that the album
recording has taken longer than what was originally planned. As an effect
of that - NB has moved the album release to Jan/Feb of 2008.

In light of this we choose to not do a
tour that could compromise the outcome of the album as well as possibly
delaying the release even more.- more
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